Top 100 Quotes On Determination And Courage
#1. There are trials in life that feel as tremendous as a quest to slay dragons. These trials are daunting. They require hard work, determination, and courage. But when the dragon is finally slain, the relief is immense.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.
Karen Cushman
#3. What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Eddie Marsan
#4. Everything new requires determination and courage from a person.
Sunday Adelaja
#5. We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
Joe Biden
#7. You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.
Justin Cotillard
#9. When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.
Anonymous
#10. Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#11. To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
Olga Kurylenko
#13. Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.
Peter Straub
#14. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.
Tom Althouse
#15. With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
Ban Ki-moon
#16. People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also ... but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.
Steve Maraboli
#18. As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest.
Tony Blair
#19. This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.
S. Alexander O'Keefe
#20. We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission; a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.
Joyce Rachelle
#21. Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
Mason Cooley
#22. When you feel like quitting at a particular goal, ignite your determination , rekindle your focus and add more courage ; for quitters are never winners .
Osunsakin Adewale
#23. My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with the grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#24. I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
Catherine Madsen
#25. An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
Giles Foden
#26. By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.
Erin Merryn
#27. Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#28. With guided hands, the world can change with a little love, hope, courage and determination.
Carolyn Kulhavy
#29. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
Prince Charles
#30. Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.
Michael Phelps
#31. You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. My soul cried out for Ash, for his courage and determination; for the way his eyes thawed when he looked at me, as if I were the only person in the world; for that beautiful, wounded spirit I saw beneath the cold exterior he showed the world.
Julie Kagawa
#33. With 100% confident, courage and commitment, anything is possible.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#35. For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there.
Cara Rosalie Olsen
#36. To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water's edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#37. The strength we find within ourselves gives us endurance and perseverance power.
Ellen J. Barrier
#38. You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#39. There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.
Roopleen
#40. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.
Enaka Yembe
#42. Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
Gerry Adams
#43. Courage and determination are qualities often overlooked in conflict. However, both foes can possess both qualities. The difference is which one counts goodness with courage and determination that more times than not overcome evil.
S. Foster
#44. When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.
Gerry Lindgren
#45. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia Woolf
#46. A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
#47. The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith
#48. Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.
Thomas S. Monson
#49. William is the most skilled protector that I have ever seen. He is the best." Determination began to swell inside of me.
"Then I will have to be better." Margo Westly
Meredith T. Taylor
#50. We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#51. Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.
Roopleen
#52. Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
Bob Filner
#53. It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.
Menna Van Praag
#54. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#55. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.
David McCullough
#58. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry Truman
#59. When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
Picabo Street
#61. When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.
Heidi Reagan
#62. There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#63. Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.
Bruno Bettelheim
#65. What do you have that the Lord didn't provide?
What do you need that the Lord can't provide?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#66. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#67. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.
Sharon Robinson
#68. A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ... so that you can find the wholeness you seek.
Sue Monk Kidd
#69. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.
Hannah Senesh
#70. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#71. Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.
Emma Goldman
#72. "Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination."
George C. Marshall
#73. Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.
Paul Roberts
#74. The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#75. The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness
Donald Bradman
#76. To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
Roopleen
#77. I'd go to hell and back and cut off the devil's head myself to save you.
Melika Dannese Lux
#79. You must seek the divinity within with all your heart, soul and mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.
Robert M. Hensel
#81. We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
Coretta Scott King
#82. Have the determination to make the effort, the single-mindness to work toward a worthy goal, and the courage not only to face the challenges that inevitably come but also to make a 2nd effort, should such be required,
Thomas S. Monson
#83. 'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
Christopher Lee
#84. It doesn't matter what you don't worth now, but the courage and determination you maintain to achieve something special in your life is all that will count in the end.
Darmie Orem
#85. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.
Bethany Hamilton
#86. To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.
Pietro Belluschi
#87. Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.
Francis Ray
#90. The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh
Oswald Chambers
#91. Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.
Ogwo David Emenike
#92. With confident, courage and commitment, the God-given goals will be achieve.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.
Dalai Lama
#94. If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination ... for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
Pam Houston
#96. Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.
Roopleen
#97. I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.
Heather Kris Thomas
#98. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George Sheehan
#99. Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.
Roopleen
#100. Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!
K.L. Toth
